asciilifeform: iirc was even pro lecturer at one time
asciilifeform envisions sumthing in the vein of hanbot's letter ( hey mod6 , did that ever get sent anywhere yet ? ) but obv the detail is up to diana_coman's skilled hand☟︎
asciilifeform: hey , at one time ( pre-tmsr... ) asciilifeform was invited to do talk at... microshit. still regrets not having prepared a trololol and going
asciilifeform: ( and where next emperor tallied up the ev and ended up ordering ~all~ boats bigger than fisherman's tub, burned... )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wasn't even all 'paper' tho -- recall the enuch vizier d00d, picking up elephants, giraffes, from africa in 1500s on maersk-sized boat
asciilifeform: ( recall the ancient tale of the 'money printer machine' scam, where it was preloaded with coupla benjies )
asciilifeform: 'hey we bought the beethoven-maker and it dun make no moar beethovens'
asciilifeform: i suspect they're quite disappointed with the investment then
asciilifeform: it still aint 100% clear to me for what exactly china needs the white devil. recall when the brits had to hook'em on opium , to buy tea ? ( cn prior would take only gold/silver as payment , and brits were running low )
asciilifeform: i do recall a mircea_popescu thread where ' i dun care how they run the barn, i'ma drink the milk ' or how did it go.
asciilifeform: lolhow's that ? does mircea_popescu throw ladder down from dirigible to the tall ones?
asciilifeform: lulzy. BingoBoingostan struck me as place where you could , per the chinese proverb, 'send virgin with sack of gold coins from one end to other, and keep both virtue and coin'
asciilifeform: aaa so extension cord back to usa, lolk
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my profession the saeculum in fact reduces to 'cut'em up and try load into head, sawing through active resistance by orig author'. it is possible to attempt it. and there are other people whose profession is to lift heavy objects in the circus. but they will not be lifting garbage truck.
asciilifeform: for instance, i did not load bdb into head, and don't intend to try, i dun have the 20 yrs that it'd take.
asciilifeform: is to separate into parts that ~may~ be loadable , individually, in head.
asciilifeform: if coad was never loaded whole into a working head, it is not properly speaking an artificial object in the sense of being designed, but moar of an excretion, i.e. pile of shit
asciilifeform: if not loaded ~whole~, then not loaded in head.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most of the extant liquishit was never loaded whole into any head. ( just as applicable to winblowz, openssl, crystalspace, etc. )
asciilifeform: i suspect there's a subtle thread there that i'm not grasping
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not simply 'does it run' but all of the possible states.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty ordinary. i hear the chinese took it further still, if you want to rent a car there, gotta give'em gsm sim #, to get the latter, passport... etc
asciilifeform: ( not peculiar to this vendor, apparently is the case for all of'em )
asciilifeform: also , for anyone who hadn't rtfm'd , 'tollfree' pnojeism worx only in usa . errybody else gets to call direct to the actual pnoje.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and apparently we get ~80orcbux of demo credit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the pnoje people called me at ~800hrs to confirm the # ; but apparently there's meat magic involved and it aint live yet ( lessee tomorrow )☟︎
asciilifeform: and yes i'd rather have 2 half-sized batts than 1 large, this is elementary, esp. given that the 'large' are made of N smalls☟︎
asciilifeform: but today it is only found in super-heaviweights ( e.g. lenovo 500 series ) afaik.
asciilifeform: and interestingly 'hole for 2nd battery' was not entirely unknown item, even in '90s ~crapple~, i have an example ( 'g3 pismo' ) box that took'em
asciilifeform: esp. pizarro voyages, these will always call for lightest available lappy, erry gram costs.
asciilifeform: i can easily see why mircea_popescu doesn't do lappies, and i wouldn't either if i didn't regularly get meself into adventures that require'em
asciilifeform: phf: incidentally i found that sharp inc makes b&w lcd's that run on 0power when holding picture, and beautiful 100% reflector-powered picture. but their biggest is iirc 4 in. and 336 × 536 .☟︎
asciilifeform: x60 was just about ideal, if on minimal size, for kbd size.
asciilifeform: for gurl it'd be ok lappy. but not for folx with full size hands, i suspect
asciilifeform: even if i finally crack the puzzler of c101pa boot and encuntooation -- thing's palpably small.
asciilifeform would happily pay a coin or 2 for a sane lappy -- <1kg, readable panel, day of battery . but it dun exist.
asciilifeform: if i cant fit 80col , machine aint usable, per my lights
asciilifeform: and i suspect the x60 is at least partly answerable for their getting thicker
asciilifeform: mine's on ratpoison, and has iirc 9pix fixed width font.
asciilifeform: phf: at one time there were rumours of a ips panel that could be stuffed into x60 and had compatible connector/timings , but afaik it's just that, rumour, i was never able to get close to one
asciilifeform: phf: thought about soldering a supercap in there
asciilifeform: phf: i drained the battery in ~2h on airplane (putting finishing touches on rk gentoo), then again in the rack (1st usa->orc mains plug brick fell apart) then again on roof...
asciilifeform: and for its cost you can buy 4 or 5 x60
